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using make instead of custom scripts) and two floppies instead of one. The resultant floppy can do everything that the individual floppies (dial, net, install, isp, router) could do, modulo some bit rot that has occurred since PicoBSD last compiled. It also includes all the programs on the fixit floppy, which could thus also die. /bin currently contains the following files: -sh dump ln ns sps [ ed login ping stty badsect ex ls ps swapon cat expr mkdir pwd sync chgrp fdisk mknod pwd_mkdb sysctl chmod find more rdump syslogd chown fsck mount reboot tar chroot ftp mount_cd9660 restore telnet clri getty mount_msdos rlogin telnetd cp grep mount_nfs rm test date gunzip mount_std rmdir traceroute dd gzip msg route umount dev_mkdb hostname mt routed vi df ifconfig mv rrestore view dhclient inetd natd rsh vm dhclient-script init netstat sed w disklabel kget newfs sh zcat dmesg kill nfs sleep Structure is in place for using the same build for the other directories, but I'm no longer sure we need this. The current first floppy will run fine by itself, but the size of a compressed kernel has increased by nearly 50% since 3.2, and there's not much space for anything useful on the remainder of the floppy. The current method creates a larger mfs and can read as many floppies as the user can stand. The footprint appears to be round 14 MB.
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1998.07.12, Warsaw, Poland
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PicoBSD @VER@ (NET)
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What is PicoBSD?
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It's a one floppy version of FreeBSD (please see http://www.freebsd.org),
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configured mainly for networking applications. It can be used as a router or
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firewall, or kind of a fixit floppy (or all of them).
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You can find more information on the home page of this project at:
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http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/
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What are minimal requirements?
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* 386SX CPU or better (there is an FPU emulator in kernel)
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* 10MB RAM - the more the better. If you have an HDD, you can make a
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swap partition or swap file (using vnode driver and vnconfig). Then you
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probably will be able to run with ca. 6MB only. But RAM is cheap...
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* Modem sitting on COM1-COM4 (default is to use COM2), if you want to have
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a PPP connection.
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* Network card: compatible with NE2000, PCI Intel, 3Com 3c509 or with DEC
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chipsets (ed, ep, fxp and de drivers). The kernel supports two of each
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ISA (i.e. +6 total) plus two PPP connections (tun interfaces). So you can
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easily build something like router with as many as 8 outlets :-)
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For detailed description and list of supported hardware see the original
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documentation, or:
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http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html
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I'll be glad hearing from you about your experiences with PicoBSD. Thanks.
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Have fun!
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Andrzej Bialecki <abial@freebsd.org>
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